HMP The Mount: Specialist officers sent in to deal with prison disturbance

Specialist officers were scrambled to deal with a disturbance among inmates at a Hertfordshire prison.

Tornado Teams - elite officers trained to bring riots under control were sent in to deal with the incident at HMP The Mount.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) later said the incident had been resolved.

They added the prison had remained "completely secure".

The Mount is a Category C prison in Bovingdon which holds more than 1,000 inmates.

It is described as "a hybrid training and resettlement prison, catering for a number of prisoners in the last six months of their sentence who are residents of Hertfordshire and surrounding areas".

An inspection in 2015 found the prison was performing well, with inspectors noting it was "reasonably safe and felt calm and well ordered", but chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick added that there was "room for improvement".